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Biomass turns to energy instead of ash

When Kevin McCully first came on as Payson’s fuels manager, he learned ash was a big part of his job. “My first week on the job, Toby Waugh took me to the Blattner brush pit and told me the looming issue to fuel management was to find a different way to get rid of the biomass or a new place for a brush pit,” said McCully. The Regional Payson Area Project (RPAP) developed the brush pits around 2001. “RPAP was a collaboration between local, state, federal and county agencies and concerned citizens,” said McCully. With annual support from the late District 1 Supervisor Tommie Martin, Rim Country has operated this system of brush pits from Payson to Pine to take trimmings private landowners generate as they clear and Firewise their properties.

RV fire shakes the Shooks

Just before 2 p.m. Thursday, a motor home fire near the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park turnoff closed Highway 87 for about an hour while firefighters worked to snuff the flames and keep it from running into the forest. Bob Shook was driving his 1999 American Eagle north on 87 with his two dogs. His wife Beverly followed in their pickup truck. The couple was headed to the Happy Jack Lodge to set up their motor home for the summer. “All of the sudden there was this big cloud of white smoke, I couldn’t see,” said Beverly. She put on her flashers and pulled over at the south end of Buckhead Mesa, where the highway turns into four lanes, thinking her husband would do the same.

Town opens pop-up brush pit

The recent winter storm not only left 20 to 25 inches of snow, it also left downed trees and limbs. The ongoing drought weakened trees throughout Rim Country, so tree limbs could not hold up the heavy snow. Sarah Linkey had a huge sycamore branch crash on her barbecue. Tree removal contractor Seth Derwort said he saw trees that had fallen on homes. John Cline got help from the Payson Fire Department after he couldn’t get out of his driveway because of a downed tree. Cleanup has started around town, but there’s nowhere to take the green waste other than the Buckhead Mesa Landfill.

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